San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1887-12-08
WASHINGTON LETTER.
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current capital gossip concerning the
Cabinet changes-that Mr.. Lamar
will be translated to tho Supreme
Bench, that Postmaster General Villas
is to succeed him, and that Mr..
Dickinson of Michigan, will be the
latter's successor. Still another ru-
NOR is that Mr.. Whitney expects to
resign from the Cabinet unless his
health greatly improves within the
next two months, his friends claim
ing that q man of the vast wealth and
great social prominence of the pre-
sent Secretary of the Navy, cannot
afford to endunger his existence by
further devoting himself to the oner-
GUS duties incumbent upon him.
Many New York Democrats were
extremely solicitous for the President
to go to his old home at Buffalo and
vote in the late election, and much
disappointment was felt that he did
not crafty public expectation in that
respect. But the President had q
good reason for absenting himself,
as he had learned from trustworthy
sources, that his presence at the polls
would have been the occasion of an
undigniied and unseemly demonstra-
ton on the part of a club of intensely
partisan Republicans, as it was their
unpatriotic purpose to challenge MIR.
Cleveland's right to vote, on the
ground that he is not now legal
resident of Buffalo. In view of this
exposed conspiracy, it is doubtful if
Mr. Cleveland again votes during his
Presidency, and when his motive is
understood, it will be applauded by
all unbiased minds.
Messrs Carlisle and Randall are
both in the city, and while neither is
willing to take the public into his
confidence, through the medium of
the press, it is highly probable that
these great leaders may have an in
formal conference before the meeting
of Congress, with the view of making
''the two wings of the Democracy flap
together" on the tariff question, in
the language of Mr.. Randall during
speech in the Forty-ninth Congress
The forthcoming report of Secretary
Fairchild is awaited with no ordinary
degree of interest by the financial
world, as it is expected that he will
take advanced ground on the questions
of the Treasury surplus, ond the sill
yer currency. That the Secretary is
laboriously and carefully applying
himself to the important undertaking
that devolves upon him, is evidenced
by the fact that to accomplish it he
has for several days confined himself
to the privacy of his home, in order
not to be diverted from his work by
visitors to the Department.
Secretary Lamar in his report,
which is completed but not yet pub
lished, recommends that the Inter
State Commerce Commission be de-
tached from the Interior Department
and made directly responsible to
Congress or the President for it's acts,
as at present the Secretary of the
Interior only officiates in the capacity
of disbursing officer for the Com
mission-it appearing that he has no
jurisdiction over that body at all.
There is great pressure of bust
ness at the General Land Office in
the way ofissuing agricultural patents,
2400 having been made out during
the past month, and others in course
of preparation will increase the num-
Der to 5000 for the month of Nov
ember, which almost outrivals any
previous record.
The balance of power in the United
States Senate is lodged with the roll
licking Riddleberger, the Senator
from Virginia, who holds in the hol-
low of his hand the political future
of three Democratic claimants to seats
-Aiessrs Lucas G. Faulkner, of West
Virginia, and Mr.. Turple, of Indiana.
Senator Riddleberger states that he
will endeavor to act as conscientiously
in these controversies as if he were
on the Supreme Bench of the United
Stptes.
The Republican Senate has more
than enough chairmauships to go
around-there being forty-seven Sen
ate committees to only thirty-eight
Republican Senators, aud so it is
likely that the majority party will
very generously bestow the nine sur
plus places on their Democratic
brethren.
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